Benito Mussolini‚ What is Fascism? Italy faced serious postwar economic problems which became known as "The Two Red Years". It faced inflation problems due to government printing money to pay for weapons‚ workers on strike‚ arms and shipbuilders became bankrupt due to lack of government order‚ and unemployment rose to two million as returning soldiers searched for work. Benito Mussolini‚ upon being removed from the Socialist Party for advocating Italy ’s participation in battle‚ organized the
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Current examples of fascism Even though there aren’t any more fascist countries in the world‚ there are many groups or organizations that have still been running using fascist ideologies. The KKK‚ or the Ku Klux Klan‚ is a racist‚ anti-Semitic movement with a commitment to extreme violence to achieve its goals of racial segregation and white supremacy. Of all the types of right-wing hate groups that exist in the United States‚ the Klan remains the one with the greatest number of national and
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PLATO’S THEORY OF COMMUNISM Plato was born in may/june 428/27 BC in Athens in an aristocratic family . Plato’s real name was Aristocles.He excelled in the study of music ‚ mathematics ‚poetry and rhetoric . Plato met with Socrates in 407 BC and became his desciple . The execution of Socrates proved to be the turning point of Plato’s life . Plato left Athens and went to many countries ‚ studying mathematics and the historical traditions of the priests . He returned to Athens in 386 BC and established
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Evolution of Communism in Europe Outline: Thesis: Communism in Europe faced a lot of mutations with the contribution of big philosophers and leaders like Marx‚ Lenin‚ and Gramsci and evolved to become the socialism we know today. I Marxism A Overview B Major Elements II Stalinism A Overview B Contribution of Stalin III Eurocommunism A Overview B Description C Major Elements IV Socialism A Overview B Major Elements V Future of Socialism
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Capitalism and Communism are two entirely diverse economic systems. Capitalism is an economic system characterized by freedom of the market. Capitalism has many pros to go along with its economy. The government will change gradually‚ but is able to adjust to it with ease. Communism can be defined as an economic and political system in which facts of production are collectively owned and directed by the state. As you will easily see capitalism and communism are viewed as two opposing political and
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turned to Communism to answer the problems that Capitalism seem unable to solve. Although the Great Depression affected each class negatively‚ the middle/lower class seemed to be hit the hardest because of stock market crash combined with the dust bowl movement. At the time of the Great Depression‚ creating an equal class really sounded like a good idea because of its sympathy towards the working class rather than business owners. The appeal of Communism was protect
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The Impact of Communism The government in the 1940’s used communism as the reason to spend lots of money and instill a sense of constant fear in American’s. In one of the opening lines of the “Atomic Cafe” Harry S. Truman was stating that the military had already spent 2 billion dollars “on the greatest scientific gamble in history”. There was an abundance of media that was being televised and published that showed communism as an extreme and controlled society that was led by one evil
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Fascism & Nazism * Brutality‚ suffering made clear chemical warfare * Loss of faith look for fascism & Nazism * Turn to science to make life better * Malthus – “perfectibility of man” scarcity of resources * Smith – Leave human nature Why does WWI cast reason in doubt? * Corruption: Why are we fighting? * 10 million dead‚ 21 million hurt leads to loss of demand (consumers) * War is expensive‚ international debt in Europe * Infrastructure‚ factories destroyed
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Extended Essay on History: Candidate Name: Gebriel Abebe Balcha Candidate Number: 00751-018 Communism in Ethiopia 1974-1987 Research Question: To what extent was the Ethiopian Derg Regime a communist regime? WORD COUNT: 3‚983 Abstract This extended essay deals with the research question: To what extent was the Ethiopian Derg Regime a Communist Regime following Marxist-Leninist ideology? It looks at the Derg Regime and
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↦How successful were the USA’s attempts to contain Communism in Cuba‚ 1959-1961? Until 1959 Cuba was an American ally‚ ruled by Fulgencio Batista. Although he was a dictator‚ he was heavily backed up by Americans which was important as most of the businesses were owned by Americans. However‚ in January of 1959‚ Batista was overthrown by Castro‚ the leader of guerrilla‚ in a revolution. He was strongly socialist‚ and started reforms on Cuba by distributing land between peasants‚ called the Agrarian
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